skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everything about the official inflation calculation is almost totally borked in terms of generating useful information. Like, information that would be useful for someone doing something real, like future historians or Zombie FDR.

There's probably dozens of mechanisms at work to explain "why??!!", but the root cause is - like so many other damn things in America - financialization, from its birth post-1972 with vehicles like EUROBOND, to its "pedal to the metal" moment with all the liquidated commie national assets, to the craptacular commodity runup crisis courtesy of Bush II wrecking the Levant and West Asia. Oh, right, and the financial system ending in 2008. When we seamlessly blended up - legally - private with public risk. Oh yeah. Sixteen years ago.

Anyway, financialization. We don't account for money supply accurately, they're dynamic with price indices now, blabbity blabbity blah blah, 1962 dollars were probably worth waaaayyyyyyyyy more than we think they were.
> It means the destruction of Israel and the expulsion - at best - of its people.

Literally nothing in the definition of the word means what you are attempting to make it mean:

free | friː |
adjective (freer | ˈfriːə | , freest | ˈfriːɪst | )

1 able to act or be done as one wishes; not under the control of another: I have no ambitions other than to have a happy life and be free | a free choice.

• [with infinitive] able or permitted to take a specified action: you are free to leave.

• (of a state or its citizens or institutions) subject neither to foreign domination nor to despotic government: a free press.

• historical not a slave: the poor among the free men joined the slaves against the rich.

• [in names] denoting an ethnic or political group actively opposing an occupying or invading force, in particular the groups that continued resisting the Germans in the Second World War after the fall of their countries: the Free Dutch, Free Polish, and Free Norwegian fleets. See also Free French.

2 [often as complement] not or no longer confined or imprisoned: the researchers set the birds free | police were forced to let him walk free.

• not physically obstructed or fixed: he tried to kick his legs free | she smiled, leaned back, and waved a free arm in the air.

• Physics (of power or energy) disengaged or available. See also free energy.

• Physics & Chemistry not bound in an atom, a molecule, or a compound: the atmosphere of that time contained virtually no free oxygen. See also free radical.

• Linguistics denoting a linguistic form that can be used in isolation.

3 not subject to engagements or obligations: she spent her free time shopping.

• (of a facility or piece of equipment) not occupied or in use: the bathroom was free.

4 (free of/from) not subject to or affected by (something undesirable): our salsas are free of preservatives.

5 given or available without charge: free healthcare.

6 using or expending something without restraint; lavish: she was always free with her money.

• frank or unrestrained in speech, expression, or action: he was free in his talk of revolution.

• archaic overfamiliar or forward.

7 (of literature or music) not observing the normal conventions of style or form.

• (of a translation) conveying only the broad sense; not literal.

8 Sailing (of the wind) blowing from a favourable direction to the side or aft of a vessel.
Best variation of that joke is paying somebody to avoid eating meat so you can pretend you're vegan.
I made my career on open source web technologies before both GitHub and Stackoverflow were a thing. I love the web! And I love making UIs and I can spend untold hours with CSS even! And I agree the state of frontend is completely bonkers.

React absolutely improved things from spaghetti jQuery. The zero-to-one productivity for interactive UIs goes through the roof, but growing and maintaining your project for any serious business use case is a complete nightmare.

I don't wish isometric javascript on any one. Javascript was infamously created in a week or whatever and now it's the browser standard, so be it, by why in god's name would you ever pick it for your server?

I burned myself out working on a personal project completely on my own using nextjs. I was super productive at the start, then as business logic increased... typing and flowing everything through components, state, reducers, selectors, async network calls, good God I grew to hate all of it.

I came crawling back to Rails. Everything and the kitchen sink is loaded in a controlled and blocking env. You can abuse the fuck out of it and it smiles at you. I'm sorry I left you Rails. (rails backend for all business logic: "the brain". Thin/dumb React JS client that consumes view-based APIs. React is great for interactive UIs. Not your fledgling business logic)
Wow, so the multi-hour package conflict resolution I am going through RIGHT NOW on my 2004 laptop is completely pointless? Good to know.
Are you an experienced UI developer that knows of something we should all use instead? Even if it's non-web I'd love to hear about it. We all would. Then we might take inspiration from it and build a new web framework.

Pretty much no one that uses React _loves_ it. But we all use it because it gets the job done.
It was also adapted into a (terrible) full length feature film with Sean Astin (Samwise Gamgee). If you like Vonnegut, you might like it.
How can they modify the app on your device silently?
Who believes the most "taboo" conspiracy theories? It might not be who you think
Typical Vonnegut. I sincerely mean this, may he rest in peace. The man was haunted.
> whatever the electromechanical equivalent of a bitflip is

It's a bitflip. Just one that makes a surprisingly loud chunkk noise.
Really cool, I'll give it a go!
Snowed yesterday. Check webcams, they are great fun to watch. [1]

Webcams are courtesy of Yosemite Conservancy. [1]

I do want to visit Taft Point this year (when Glacier Point Road opens)

It's close to Sentinel Dome, which is home for the "High Sierra" webcam.

The cameras have been upgraded in recent times, and the "El Capitan" camera (on Turtleback, near Tunnel View) shows star photos at night.

[1] https://yosemite.org
Best IRC Client for Rambox
Need Some Help [MLOps]
Actually, I have done a Deep learning specialization and I was thinking about taking the MLOps course. Will it be worth it? or will I be fine without it??
Your choice of language in your comments (in this thread, not in general) isn’t bolstering your argument.

Why not be curious rather than just dismissive? This seems to be people just talking past each other at this point.

There have been a lot of changes in the last ~five years that point in the direction of supply chain security being at greater risk.

Evidence comes in many forms. The relevance of evidence depends on what part of the problem you are looking at.

Also, it is rational to talk about the probability by which different evidence is likely to be surfaced!

I think it is possible you are sensitive to people making such claims for self-interested purposes. Fair? But I don’t think it’s fair to assume that of commenters here.
Language is a tool. We use words because they are useful. As a practical matter, the conspiracy versions of terms have only passing resemblance with their real-world counterparts. Mentioning the relevant people isn’t actually engaging with the content of it, it is more like worldbuilding in a fictional story. New York is a real place but Spider-Man doesn’t live there. MI6 is a real organization but James Bond isn’t on their payroll.
My point: DEI is the result, not the mean. If you do “DEI”, you will result in something un-DEI. We you do things right, DEI will show itself eventually.
You can't by controlling the thermometer to control the temperature.
In Bash, yes. Or, almost.

The printf built-in command has a %q conversion specifier which quotes the argument such that the result can be used as input into the shell.

Such a thing cannot be inserted into a quote without affecting its meaning, but what you can do is terminate the quote before and after it.

'stuff before'$(printf "%q" "$value")'stuff after'

In this case, because it's a single quote, we need to terminate it anyway, order to activate the command substitution syntax.
As an Asian, the DEI idea and how it was executed puzzled me as well.

Apple's first VP of diversity said [1]:

> “Diversity is the human experience. I get a little bit frustrated when diversity or the term diversity is tagged to the people of color, or the women, or the LGBT.”

> “there can be 12 white, blue-eyed, blonde men in a room and they’re going to be diverse too because they’re going to bring a different life experience and life perspective to the conversation.”

She had to resigned [2] for saying so. That really confused me, isn't what she said... true?

[1]: https://qz.com/1097425/apples-first-ever-vp-of-diversity-and...
[2]: https://nypost.com/2017/11/17/apples-diversity-chief-lasts-j...
> As Americans living post-9/11 will know, “national security” is a deliberately elastic term that can cover anything required in the moment.

One of the genuine cultural differences between the US and Israel is that while Americans prefer greater liberty (even if it means less security), Israelis prefer greater security (even if it means less liberty). Which is to say, both cultures appreciate both values, but they have different priorities.

Israel is a country where you will have your bags searched before entering shopping malls or train stations. That Israelis' privacy is violated on a daily basis by other Israelis is popular. There is a sense that the privacy violations are genuinely needed, result in genuine protection, and are not abused by those in power.
This was old news on bsky months ago
Everybody is a pedestrian from their door to their parking space. Banning pedestrians is impossible, life without cars on the other hand has worked for millennia.
Who can share a threat model with specific probability estimates on this? FWIW, I’m less interested in the particular estimates (priors) and more interested in the structure.
I assume by deterministic simulation you mean: use a harness wherein you can deterministically run specific executions of a distributed system (e.g., force specific event interleavings, failures etc?)?

If so, yes it's more accessible. The previous paper I linked (Sieve) used such a technique to reliably execute test plans so any bugs we find can be reproduced. But when it comes to correctness, I still think verification is just much more powerful.

W.r.t tooling, I think there's still quite the usability and knowledge gap to cross. The way I see it, we've had decades to figure out how to engineer complex software systems from simpler parts, with a lot written about software engineering and testing in general.

Full-system verification in contrast is still really young, and breaking up a system into an implementation, specification and proofs currently requires quite some creativity and even awareness of how the verifier works. The Anvil project I mentioned above had a team of systems, distributed computing, reliability and verification experts (including Verus authors) team up to do this.
Same here. _I already am eating from the trash can all the time_

https://youtu.be/oBcFLmu_tlc
On behalf of the group of slightly-longer-ago immigrants to the country that you're classifying as having "built this country": I'm not sure why my ancestors coming here a while back means you can't say "I don't want a dog next to my desk at work".

If you're a person who lives here and works here, you get to participate in defining what the society and workplace look like, respectively. Having to type it out actually feels weird, because it's pretty self-evident. You're here, the things you do impact the culture.
What claims is he making specifically?

> the nature of sex (spectrums and such)

Sex shows itself to be a spectrum pretty often.

> unscientific claims about being able to change one's sex

Phenotype or genotype?

They don't always match even without any medical intervention, and a change in hormones can drastically change phenotype.
But yaml is fine at config, it sucks at looping, conditionals and data structures, if you aren't fixing that its just another standard we have to learn, so thanks for that
I have to drive to Mammoth in late May, from SF. Hoping that 120 will be open by then!
I can point to a laundry list of atrocities committed by US. Should Qatar refuse to host US?

Qatar is not a western country, there is no reason to expect it to buy into western exceptionalism. This is not to defend Hamas but simply to point out that the western double standard doesn’t reach much beyond Europe.
I get very little joy from programming. I never program outside of work - I hike, climb, work on my house, raise my kids. But it pays the bills and I can do it, so I've put in the time to learn enough to be worth paying a salary.

When I was a kid I wanted to be a paleontologist. Then I wanted to be a smoke jumper. Now I'm a staff engineer.

Not everyone gets to do what they love. Some of us are just following the money.
Swift is really nice to write. I wish I were paid to use it! I spent this weekend toying with embedded Swift. I work day to day with PHP and recent versions have introduced some language features that make it much nicer than it used to be (constructor property promotion, readonly properties) but I try to keep a rule of no PHP at the weekend.

https://madmachine.io/products/swiftio-playground-kit
It is difficult to choose a one blog post among all. But I feel there are few type of post which changed my thought process are blogs written by experts in the field. I love reading how they think about something whether its a computer program or science or cooking or hobby they have.
Also more than just a blog I love reading author, if I like something about blog I go deep read their other blogs as well and if I feel the guy is worth following I just start reading their blogs and I do read repetitively.
Like Microsoft did with GitHub?
Well they should be allowed to live without any law that restricts their freedom to speak. Not any law in general, but just those that the constitution, our social contract, protects.

In particular, the comments made are in no way a criminal threat, so people have an absolute right to say them, whether the feds agree or not.
> So the Polish intelligence selected 3 smartest mathematicians

The interwar period in general saw an extraordinary flowering of top notch mathematicians and mathematical logicians in Poland [0][1], including Tarski and Banach. So the conditions in the country were very conducive. Others besides Rejewski, Rozycki, and Zygalski also worked on deciphering enemy messages years before WWII, such as Lesniewski, Mazurkiewicz, and Sierpinski [2].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_School_of_Mathematics

[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/lvov-warsaw/

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Kowalewski
At this point I think that ideal setup is to use numerical id for primary and foreign keys and maintaining a separate uuid field for everything else.

The reason being that index size matters a lot (for caches and other things) and index size depends on underlying field size, obviously.

Whether to use UUID or ULID is depends on tooling. While it's not hard to write ascending UUID generator and I did it myself few times, using standard APIs might be better approach despite the shortcomings.
I don't have time to read it right now, but on the topic, does anyone know easy ways to script directing e-mails?

I have used filters in Gmail, but they are annoying to create and maintain. Would prefer to use JavaScript to direct where an e-mail should go to or whether it should grab my attention or not.
It is true in 2024 also, just that you have to choose a location different from US; go to Southeast Asia to see it in action everyday, where everyone is extra nice to white people - sales people are extra polite, people laugh extra hard at everything white people say, the lady at the counter pays first attention to white people among the group of folks waiting and so on. I have heard white people say "I loved the experience, everyone was so nice"... Of course it was, of course they were.

To be fair, there are flip sides to this too e.g
white folks are more likely to be overcharged, more likely to be subject of scams etc but that's just the other side of the same coin.
> the only 100% guarantee is when the data is deleted before the model is retrained

That’s not even a guarantee. A model can hallucinate information about anyone, and by sheer luck some of those hallucinations will be correct. And as a consequence of forging (see section 2.2.1) you’d never be able to prove whether the data was in the training set or not.
Finally, there won't be direct propaganda. Freedom should be available to those, who value it, not those who actively promote terrorism and cover it up with lies.
One of the attached strings is that they aren't allowed to have a meaningful airport or seaport. It's a misrepresentation to suggest that Gaza has been free to self-realize given that it's basically been under a light-touch siege for decades.
And one day you realize wrappers are what it was all about

You betta lose yaself in the music tha moment you own it you betta neva let it go (go (go (go))) you only get 1 shot do NAHT miss ya chance to blow cuz oppatunity comes once inna lifetime (you betta) /gunshot noise
> These emails were released as part of the antitrust lawsuit

I never understood this: Why would hot shot, high powered people risk putting such things on email? Things that could backfire when released into public domain like from a lawsuit or a leak. They know this well, and still keep doing it. Why not setup an in person meeting, or just pickup the phone and talk ? Why email?

I almost feel they actually want it to happen but could never point my finger to how this could cover their asses, or an exit strategy?
> It is statistically inevitable that someone will kill themselves on the bollards.

Yes, maybe someone will walk in to a bollard once every 10 years and die. It's noting compared to the tens or hundreds of thousands of people dying every years from cars (direct accidents, air pollution, microplastic pollution), never mind the environmental impact, city design impact, and many people "merely" injured rathter than killed. There is no equivalence here on any level.

And the "obvious" solution is to ban pedestrians? I don't even...
Chrome extensions have also been subject to those purchase offers for a long time.
Family wealth is probably an indicator for future success. I don't know the numbers, but I would expect family wealth to correlate positively with the earnings of the children. So if you want a return on investment, it makes sense to bet on the wealthy.

But I thought we were talking merit and opportunity? No, being a banker's son doesn't predestine you to being more skillful. You should already have enough counterexamples to demonstrate that fact.

Your comment is borderline bewildering. It's like corruption and nepotism don't exist.
> (barely an inconvenience)

You need to get aaaall the way of my back about why flying planes with JS sounds like a bad idea :-)
Did the article provide any reason for ULID over UUID?

- it’s slightly more complex than UUID, but not enough to be a problem

- it’s sortable (in time?) which UUID can also be (but usually recommended not to be)

- it can produce slightly more ids per second, but not enough to make a difference.

So, it’s a tie, a tie and a tie. Why would you switch?
I can see a DEI program as promoting the social values of an institution. A position that I once had was this. If all ethnic groups have a bell curve of intelligence. All things being equal, the ethnic groups would have similar distributions of academic qualifications.

So if a particular ethnic group is disadvantaged in a quantifiable way. Then applying a factor to who is accepted into the academic programs. Would bring in people at the upper ends of the bell curve across the different ethnic/racial groups.

In other words, all things being equal across quantifiable ethnic/racial opportunity. This would bring in the top tier candidates across all ethnicities/racial groups. And if all ethnicities/racial groups are equal in intelligence. Then it would bring in the top tier candidates across *all* ethnicities/racial groups.
It can be both my belief about ulterior motives and an honest opinion on my preferences for naturally grown coffee. :)
"Made in Japan" won't have the same issue because culturally Japanese people will always buy a Japanese products even if there's a cheaper alternative. Visit Tokyo & count how many people drive Hyundai. "Made in US" doesn't have the same local advocacy because it's driven by different market dynamics (Consumerism & Immigration). Japanese work culture still cares for craftsman ship but they have fallen behind in advance tech compared to other nations like Taiwan & Korea.
I was looking and home wind options last weekend, and came across Harmony Wind Turbines, which look interesting given as a vertical solution they take less room, their models apparently can gather wind at lower wind speeds, and they have a feature to allow they to function at higher wind speeds, increasing the total operational speeds.

Unfortunately, all the interesting details are pending testing which they've partnered with universities for, but I'm not sure how far along they are.

Its unfortunately very hard to yell whether it's actually interesting or just appears to be so because key details aren't known, but hopefully we'll know one way or another within a year or two.

The other energy source that's drawn my interest recently is microhydro solutions, but that necessarily requires specific geographic features (a water source and elevation).
I remember the earlier story about the disposal and Robert Green's obsession with reviving it back in 2013 in The Economist[1]—at that time, "Intrepid fans have occasionally tried to recover pieces of the type from the river, but no one has ever found any"—so it's good to hear that the story didn't end there.

[1]: https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2013/12/19/the-... (paywalled; https://archive.is/XfK1x)
The problem isn't inflation. The US was horrifically expensive well before the pandemic and the inflation it spawned. Americans think it's all normal: they think it's normal that medical care and medications cost a fortune, that an ambulance ride costs thousands, that you're supposed to "tip" 20-30% for service when you eat in a restaurant instead of just paying the advertised price, that there's huge but hidden taxes in many places, such as with hotel rooms, etc etc.
Adding 700MW in GPUs in 12 months is within Meta's capabilities.
Pedantic point, that's when they proved nuclear power was possible. It was still unknown whether the cross section of U-235 was large enough to permit a small, transportable bomb to go critical, and whether that reaction would have occurred fast enough to generate a significant explosion. And in the case of Plutonium, the idea of implosion hadn't even been worked out yet, let alone tested.
Sweet! Yea, I have several panels that have 2 of them for that reason. I have debated making a larger one since the code is open source. It would be great to have one that has more ports, and perhaps the ports combined into less cables.
The facebookexternalhit user agent: Facebook crawler vs. iMessage
My AArch64 reverse engineering tool has been incredibly useful to me:
https://s1.danielc.dev/re64/
I use it almost every day.
Housework productivity has gone through the roof since the invention of dishwashers, washing machines, dryers, etc. My grandma used to actually work hard the whole day to run the houshold. My family today manages with maybe two or three hours of light work per day.